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Guillaume Budé | Humanist, Philologist, Linguist | Britannica

Guillaume Budé was a French scholar who brought about a revival of classical studies in France and helped to found the Collège de France, Paris. He was also a diplomat and royal librarian. Educated in Paris and Orléans, he became especially proficient in Greek, learning philosophy, law, theology,

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BUDAEUS (BUDÉ), Guillaume

Database of Classical Scholars - The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Guillaume Bude | Encyclopedia.com

BUDÉ, GUILLAUME (1468–1540) BUDÉ, GUILLAUME (1468–1540), French scholar. Budé was born into a prominent Paris bourgeois family with ties to the French crown and a large collection of books and manuscripts.

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Guillaume Budé

Guillaume Budé (French: [ɡijom byde]; Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; 1468 – 1540) was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France. Budé was also the first keeper of the royal library at the Palace of Fontainebleau, which was later moved to Paris, where it became the Bibliothèque nationale de France. He was an ambassador to Rome and held several important judicial and civil administrative posts.

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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Budé, Guillaume - Wikisource, the free online library

He also induced Francis to refrain from prohibiting printing in France, which had been advised by the Sorbonne in 1533. He was sent by Louis XII. to Rome as ambassador to Leo X., and in 1522 was appointed *maître des requêtes* and was several times *prévôt des marchands*. He died in Paris on the 23rd of August 1540.

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